In search of ancient Rome / Claude Moatti.

Main entry:

Moatti, Claude.

Title & Author:

In search of ancient Rome / Claude Moatti.

Publication:

New York : Abrams, 1993.

Description:

207 pages : illustrations (some color), 2 maps, portraits ; 18 cm.

Series:

Discoveries

Notes:
Translated from the French by Anthony Zielonka.
Cover title: The search for ancient Rome.
Includes bibliographical references (page 200) and index.
1. Rome, the eternal city -- 2. The age of the humanists -- 3. From private collections to art history -- 4. Rome under Napoleon -- 5. The age of reason -- 6. From one myth to another.

Summary:

Though Rome has been destroyed and rebuilt over and over again, traces of the ancient city--the Colosseum, the Pantheon, Trajan's Column--have never completely disappeared. Scholars and treasure hunters, archaeologists and artists, popes and poets have invested the city's ruins with significance. Here is the story of how Rome, truly the Eternal City, has endured it all. Illustrations.

ISBN:

0810928396 (pbk.)
9780810928398 (pbk.)

Subject:

Excavations (Archaeology) Italy Rome.
Archaeology Italy Rome History.
Fouilles (Archéologie) Italie Rome.
Archéologie Italie Rome Histoire.
Antiquities.
Archaeology.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Rome (Italy) Antiquities.
Rome In art.
Rome (Italie) Antiquités.
Italy Rome.
Rome (Empire)

Form/genre:

Young adult nonfiction.
Art.
History.

Added entries:

Discoveries (New York, N.Y.)

Search for ancient Rome

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86352
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:93-B1857
Status: Available

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